Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe · Alabama

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City)

Pell City, AL · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe workplace, earning a grade D.

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City): 6.0 TCR = 183% of Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) safety composite

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2016→2020

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) injury rate improved

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City)'s TCR fell 0.6 from 5.7 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · Pell City, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Overstreet Hughes Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Overstreet Hughes Co., Inc. dba Fabricated Tube Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) falls in its industry

337 Bends, pipe, made from purchas establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Bends, pipe, made from purchas employers in Alabama.

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) (137 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City)
The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) (137 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) has more employees than the Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 5.1 4.4 7 0 0
2019 7.3 5.9 10 0 0
2016 5.7 4.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · AL · Pell City

337 Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 44 employers in Pell City, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Overstreet Hughes Co., Inc. dba Fabricated Tube Products 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Propipe Technologies, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Tube & Conduit Kokomo In 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Alloy Corporation 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoar Program Management, LLC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fulton Sawmill 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nucor Tubular Products - Trinity 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Serta Cullman 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eissmann Group Automotive 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR WKW Erbsloeh North America, LLC 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Col Robert L Howard 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5113 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Augustana Centrex MN 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Regester Chevrolet Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Randy's Sanitation Inc. - Delano 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Three Bridges Road Practices 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE willamette construction services inc. 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bureau of Water Protection & Land Reuse 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fellowship Square Historic Mesa 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ms Care Center of Alcorn County 137 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.